“After careful review, we found this app to be violating that particular policy and suspended it, as we have done with similar attempts to profit from other high-profile events such as earthquakes, crises, suicides and conflicts.”

But unlike Apple, which pulled HKmap.live from its app store last October, WhatsGap can be reinstalled on Android.

Google now joins Apple, Blizzard, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) — all of which have bowed down to growing pressure from China.